It's a figure of speech. If you were around in 2014/15 this number was doubted by almost everybody except me. I took so much shit for saying 8m was the minimum and I'd hopes it would do 10m+.

So you can't provide he proof, got it.

If you were a regular in the mediacreate threads back in 2014 you'd know what I mean. Most thought the Vita and Wii U would outsell it too.

OTBWY said:

Kerotan said:It's quite fitting that the last ever mediacreate has the ps4 hitting the 8m milestone. Remember folks, 90% around here doubted that number. It beats the ps3 to 9m aligned too so can't wait for that. Rip.

Wasn't your original projection 10 million?

I said 10m and that 8m was the absolutely bare minimum it could reach. It's now passed that and there's plenty of time left for it to reach 10m now.

TruckOSaurus said:

Kerotan said:

It's a figure of speech. If you were around in 2014/15 this number was doubted by almost everybody except me. I took so much shit for saying 8m was the minimum and I'd hopes it would do 10m+.

So I did a bit of digging back to 2014 and 2015. Here's a few posts from a few regular members

May 2014.
Tbone: minimum 4m - max 8m. This kind of prediction from his wasn't seen as unusual and was actually more generous then many posters gave it. The ps4 has now passed that 8m max and will go a good bit higher.http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6336857

The above are from 1 thread in May 2014. That summer stuck with me because the amount of posters who were not playstation fans that constantly doubted the potential of the ps4. All because of a slow start. It was 10 times worse on neogaf however then here.

I'm going to post this now while I look for more threads from that era.

Shadow1980 said:Was it confirmed that MC will stop making hardware data public, too, or is it just software data?

Hardware & software

I see. That sucks. It kind of messes with everything I have in my database. I may end up just going with Famitsu for the whole year because of the differences in their tracking:

After Week 1 it doesn't look too bad, until you take away Week 1 to increase the resolution of the vertical axis:

Overall, here's the percent differences between MC and Famitsu so far for this year:

A lot of those differences are not trivial. They may not be quite as noticeable in a complete chart of yearly figures, but they still exist, and in some weeks it can mean a difference of quite a few pixels on a chart, and I get kind of OCD over that.

Overall, Famitsu's YTD numbers for the Switch and PS4 are 1.8% and 3.5% higher than MC's, respectively. If you take out Week 1, though, then Famitsu's numbers are 0.44% and 1.34% lower than MC's. So, there's not as big of a difference in Famitsu vs. MC when it comes to YTD sales compared to what we see in individual weeks, but the difference is there.

Kerotan said:So I did a bit of digging back to 2014 and 2015. Here's a few posts from a few regular members

May 2014. Tbone: minimum 4m - max 8m. This kind of prediction from his wasn't seen as unusual and was actually more generous then many posters gave it. The ps4 has now passed that 8m max and will go a good bit higher.http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6336857

The above are from 1 thread in May 2014. That summer stuck with me because the amount of posters who were not playstation fans that constantly doubted the potential of the ps4. All because of a slow start. It was 10 times worse on neogaf however then here.

I'm going to post this now while I look for more threads from that era.

4 people

When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

Kerotan said:So I did a bit of digging back to 2014 and 2015. Here's a few posts from a few regular members

May 2014. Tbone: minimum 4m - max 8m. This kind of prediction from his wasn't seen as unusual and was actually more generous then many posters gave it. The ps4 has now passed that 8m max and will go a good bit higher.http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6336857

The above are from 1 thread in May 2014. That summer stuck with me because the amount of posters who were not playstation fans that constantly doubted the potential of the ps4. All because of a slow start. It was 10 times worse on neogaf however then here.

I'm going to post this now while I look for more threads from that era.

Can we celebrate the last ever MC thread and PS4's achievement without being extremely toxic, gloating, and ruining our last ever historic thread?

Kerotan said:So I did a bit of digging back to 2014 and 2015. Here's a few posts from a few regular members

May 2014. Tbone: minimum 4m - max 8m. This kind of prediction from his wasn't seen as unusual and was actually more generous then many posters gave it. The ps4 has now passed that 8m max and will go a good bit higher.http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6336857

The above are from 1 thread in May 2014. That summer stuck with me because the amount of posters who were not playstation fans that constantly doubted the potential of the ps4. All because of a slow start. It was 10 times worse on neogaf however then here.

I'm going to post this now while I look for more threads from that era.

Kerotan said:So I did a bit of digging back to 2014 and 2015. Here's a few posts from a few regular members

May 2014. Tbone: minimum 4m - max 8m. This kind of prediction from his wasn't seen as unusual and was actually more generous then many posters gave it. The ps4 has now passed that 8m max and will go a good bit higher.http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6336857

The above are from 1 thread in May 2014. That summer stuck with me because the amount of posters who were not playstation fans that constantly doubted the potential of the ps4. All because of a slow start. It was 10 times worse on neogaf however then here.

I'm going to post this now while I look for more threads from that era.

In that very same thread I said it could pass the ps3 if a mainline Monster Hunter lands on the ps4 and I thought Sony would at least be trying to get it.

So pre MH announcement I went with 9 to 10m and if it got Monster Hunter it could beat the ps3. Spot on from myself. Didn't predict everything exactly but I thought it could get 9-10m without MH and beat ps3 with it.

"And it's in Sony's best interests. A console with DQ11 + spin offs, FF15, KH3, FF7R, GTA 6 and a monster hunter mainline entry (shared with handheld) + spin offs is going to do very well in Japan. Couple with series like yakuza, resident evil, gran turismo, Persona 5 etc etc and it really would have a chance at passing the ps3.

Sony aren't dumb and their relationship with capcom has improved greatly. I struggle to see them not getting in on the monster hunter action. Only way of it not happening is if Nintendo pay big bucks for exclusivity"

Here's a thread from February 2015. Now the ps4's fortunes had changed at this point and the Doom of 2014 wasn't as strong but you can clearly see a big divide on this site. Mostly playstation fans still believed it could do ps3 numbers and non playstation fans didn't. Have a read through this. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=198798&page=1